Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Beer can]

Oh wow that is terrifying!!

It's a young new hire that has the shellfish allergy. When he got up and moved some where like really the smell?
He says want to hear a funny one, involved a bunch of high school kids, bottle of vodka, one of them that apparently had shellfish for a meal exploding vomit, got some spittle/puke on him, ended up in the hospital emergency room anaphylactic shock, said it was kinda hard to hide that high school party from the parents

 

[ShrekDawg]

It's a young new hire that has the shellfish allergy. When he got up and moved some where like really the smell?
He says want to hear a funny one, involved a bunch of high school kids, bottle of vodka, one of them that apparently had shellfish for a meal exploding vomit, got some spittle/puke on him, ended up in the hospital emergency room anaphylactic shock, said it was kinda hard to hide that high school party from the parents

Oh wow!! At least he has a sense of humor about the whole thing!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Decisions will be made about who lives (gets a ventilator) and who does not. People will not be able to gather to mourn the dead, people will die alone at home. The poorest amongst us will be the hardest hit because they will continue to work because they have no choice. We are a rudderless ship.

Doctors in Northern Italy aren't treating those over 60 so they can save the younger people.
They just don't have the equipment to treat.
They have run out of cemetery space in most of the north and bodies are being shipped south to find more burial space.

the truth is that those of us with a family or friends support system will get through this better than those isolated or alone. Take care of each other.

One may be better off isolated for the time being. Those of us with a support system may just keep infecting each other.

I don't mind being alone.

 

[Beer can]

Doctors in Northern Italy aren't treating those over 60 so they can save the younger people.

I read that also

 

[ChickenCanoe]

We had our first death in St. Louis today.
With all the closures, at least they have included liquor stores as essential enterprises along with hardware, auto parts, grocery, pharmacies and feed stores.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Base frames are treated 2x4. 4' wide 5' front to back. 5' tall 2x4 welded wire. 10' piece of wire makes a 4' high dome ( in the gamefowl world its called dome pens) front and backs are cut one wire width higher and 2 wire widths wider for sides. Cut the front and backs so the wire is free on ends and wrap all the free wires around the dome all the way around. Cut door holes and make doors one wire square wider on all sides and wrap the free wires on the left around front to make hinges. I use plastic clasps to keep the doors closed. Sorry its prolly difficult to envision what I'm saying. Later I'll take pics for you

Thank you!
I think I can mostly follow. It's similar to how I make mine, though mine are cattle panel arches attached to a wood frame base, then wired over with field fence, hardware cloth, and/or chicken wire. Mine are shorter and usually used for temp use or with with meat birds, which are harder to get in/out of, but lighter for one person to drag around. I've tried wheels with mixed success. Wheels don't really help in even slightly damp red clay, but better for drier non-clay soils.

I like the idea of yours and think if I put then next to a barn wall for protection, they might work with minimal arch support here.

 

[21hens-incharge]

If you want to know what your future may hold, just check in on what is happening in NY. The same escalation has started here in NJ. This is an exceedingly infectious agent. It only takes one infected person to start an ever expanding cell of disease. Non symptomatic individuals if infected are spreading the illness.

That is the thing that baffles me a bit......
If we have asymptomatic people wandering about.....shouldn't we ALL mask up?
My germs are mine and you can't have them.....

I know I know there aren't any masks.....but at least a covering of SOMETHING seems better than a covering of NOTHING.

Maybe I am looking at it to simply.....

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Thanks for all the info and details! I find it very interesting. I never knew the exact details or exactly WHY regular store oats weren’t gluten free, just had heard cross contamination mentioned briefly before.

And it’s interesting you mentioned your kid gets sick from regular oats because I do too although it’s weird because I can eat bread and other things containing gluten so

You may have an oat allergy or intolerance. My kiddo used to be allergic to tomatoes.
And bananas. Yeah, strange, but a person can be allergic to many many things beyond what we typically think of as the "big" ones. Some people are allergic to cantaloupe and nothing else.
Check into it further because if regular gluten containing items like traditional breads don't bother you, then you have something different than a gluten issue. A friend of mine cannot eat oats either, but nothing else is a problem.
I won't go too far here, but there are tons and tons of sites out there to help people work through elimination diets (it's not as bad as it sounds) to help people identify what thier intolerances may be. Ones that don't show up on a typical allergy test.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well.... at least if sheet hits the fan, I’ll still have food! Got 8 eggs today and that’s not even all my layers! Think I have one or two more laying but they don’t all lay on the same day. But still. Lots and lots of eggs!! And a few extra cockerels if it comes down to it. gotta get my garden going next. Still haven’t started seeds yet.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

Meanwhile in Maryland, folks are walking their dogs as ususual but at a distance, and happily the chicks are not affected by any of this $#;t.
After dinner a snack of select baby yard weed florets salad (not the periwinkle) and ground BOSS for dessert.